---
type: "Bill"
title: "NOTARIES: Provides for reciprocal notarial authority of notaries qualified in St. Martin Parish and St. Landry Parish. (8/1/25)"
description: "NOTARIES: Provides for reciprocal notarial authority of notaries qualified in St. Martin Parish and St. Landry Parish. (8/1/25)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 116"
citation: "Louisiana SB 116 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Kleinpeter"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-03"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d49b6e4f-c9c6-4e7a-b2a6-5db544908ca6"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=248393"
source_hash: "f520e8453eddc53e047fcda63fd294e6ba283129a3e2201b84a4738ec691b457"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana SB 116 (2025) — NOTARIES: Provides for reciprocal notarial authority of notaries qualified in St. Martin Parish and St. Landry Parish. (8/1/25)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB116 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1403217)
2. **SB116 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1422222)
3. **SB116 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405603)
4. **SB116 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1407340)
5. **Senate Floor Bureau Note, #612, Kleinpeter, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1406366)
6. **Senate Floor Legislative Bureau Amendment, #526, Miller, G., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1405780)
7. **SB116 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1417894)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#28) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#591) — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caleb Kleinpeter — primary (person)
- Tehmi Chassion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-06-04** Effective date 8/1/2025.
- **2025-06-04** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 40. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2025-05-29** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-28** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2025-05-28** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate. `enrolled`
- **2025-05-27** Received from the House without amendments. `receipt`
- **2025-05-22** Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2025-05-21** Scheduled for floor debate on 05/22/2025.
- **2025-05-14** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2025-05-13** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2025-05-12** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-24** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2025-04-22** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2025-04-15** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary A. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d49b6e4f-c9c6-4e7a-b2a6-5db544908ca6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).